IN BRIEF


Ireland Top 10


A pair familiar to UK readers top the pile across the Irish Sea, but its book-buyers backed homegrown authors and religious textbooks, too


3 Feeling Finn


Finn’s The Woman in the Window has been a hit everywhere—but most of all in Ireland, where it even beat a former American president to become the highest-charting US-authored title of the year.


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Top of the Bill: A-List US pair win Irish vote


In the least surprising news ever, Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s The President is Missing has been a smash-hit in the US, where it cruised into fifth place for the year to date with more than 600,000 copies sold. However, it almost matched that chart position in Ireland, with the A-List duo’s début hitting sixth place, with a respectable 20,309 units sold. (For context, the Irish population is roughly 1% that of the US.)


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Building Bridgets: Comic duo’s Aisling proves a hit


The “Irish Bridget Jones”, Oh My God What a Complete Aisling by Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght, has been a runaway hit on the Emerald Isle, with nine weeks at number one, an endorsement from taoiseach Leo Varadkar and a film adaptation in the works. Two editions chart in the overall top 50 with a combined 28,719 units sold—but it’s the newer, April-published paperback in the top 10, with 19,734 copies sold.


14 10th October 2018


Bestseller Lists Ireland Top 10


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Honeyman’s sweet spot


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Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine reigns across the UK and Ireland, with the Costa First Novel Award winner the Irish number-one bestseller in 2018, by nearly 13,000 copies. Fiction is boom- ing in the Emerald Isle, up 8.9% in volume for the first half of the year, topping the 6% bump posted by the nation’s market as a whole.


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School textbooks dominate the


Children’s category in Ireland, with Mathematical Tables in fourth place. Across the summer, 58 out of Ireland’s 100 bestsellers were educational titles


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Bishops’ bestseller leads way in textbook field


In seventh place, Grow in Love: Second Class Primary 4 is the highest-charting title in the religious education series produced by Veritas, the publisher owned by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. The conference has long near-monopolised the religious y


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textbook market, and recently decreed that Grow in Love was the only approved series for teach- ing in schools. The five Grow in Love titles in the Irish top 50 have sold a combined 74,746 copies in 2018.


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9 Skin in the game


The queen of Emerald noir, Liz Nugent’s Skin Deep is in ninth place for the year to date, with 19,154 copies shifted.


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Morris’ Tattooist makes its mark on Irish buyers


Heather Morris is used to taking second place to Gail Honeyman: in The Bookseller’s UK weekly e-book ranking, The Tattooist of Auschwitz has been runner-up to Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine a record 13 times. Due to The Tattooist’s higher print r.r.p. in Ireland, it has actually outearned Eleanor by €65,000. It also outsold fellow débutant A J Finn’s The Woman in the Window by more than 1,000 copies for the year to date.


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Hannigan’s final title in chart-topping form


Emma Hannigan is the highest-charting Irish author of 2018 to date: her Letters to My Daughters soared to the top of the charts after she announced that the breast cancer she had beaten 10 times in 13 years was back, and this time her treatment options had been exhausted. Ireland’s community of writers launched a social media campaign to get Letters to My Daughters to the top spot—which it promptly did, outselling the second-placed title by more than two copies to one. Since Hannigan’s death at the age of 45, the title has continued to sell, shifting 17,000 copies more than her previous top-seller, 2010’s Miss Conceived.


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Non-fiction sales are up 10.5%


in the first half of 2018, boosted by a 40% rise in driver’s guides, due to a law change. The Driver Teory Test for Cars, Motorcycles & Work Vehicles hit 10th place as a result


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